New NASA equipment could mean we will discover alien life and an Earth 2.0 in the near future, experts say.

"Imagine the moment that the news breaks we've discovered Earth 2.0," Matt Mountain, the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said Monday during a panel discussion at NASA headquarters, which was posted to YouTube.

"Imagine the moment the whole world wakes up to the news our long loneliness in time and space may have ended. We may no longer be alone in the universe."